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A Postcard From a Mediterranean Cruise – Part Five

17th August 2022 Going Postal 1

Day 12 – Thursday 7th July 2022 – Cadiz Awakened just as we are approaching Cadiz. I think it is the pilot coming aboard that wakes me as it all happens below my cabin but [more…]

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A Postcard From a Mediterranean Cruise – Part Four

10th August 2022 Going Postal 0

Day 9 – Monday 4th July 2022 – Barcelona day 1 The port pilot coming aboard woke me around 6 o’clock. The sun was just coming up, a big red ball heralding another hot day. [more…]

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A Postcard From a Mediterranean Cruise – Part Three

3rd August 2022 Going Postal 1

Day 4 – Wednesday 29th June 2022 – At sea I woke up and struggled to focus on my little clock, 07:30, late for me as I like to breakfast at 8 o’clock. Anyway I [more…]

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A Postcard From a Mediterranean Cruise – Part Two

27th July 2022 Going Postal 0

Day -1 – Saturday 25th June ’22 Today I have a few little jobs to do before I am ready for my drive to Southampton tomorrow morning and my cruise, nothing too taxing but if [more…]

Arts

A Postcard From a Mediterranean Cruise – Part 1

17th July 2022 Going Postal 1

I so enjoyed my Christmas fly cruise to the Caribbean that a week or so after coming home I made my mind up to book one for Christmas 22/23. I like the Englishness of a [more…]

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Sailing my life away (II), part 3

5th July 2022 Ancient Mariner 0

I have seen SB’s notice he is running short of articles again and have difficulty doing what I promised last time because I’m still on my land voyage by caravan. I don’t have all my [more…]

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Messing about in boats

27th June 2022 Godfrey Bloom 0

Believe me my young friend there is nothing,  absolutely nothing, half as much worth doing as simply messing about in boats (Ratty to Mole, Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows) I first started messing [more…]

Biography

Sailing my life away (II), part 2

7th June 2022 Ancient Mariner 0

Hello again Puffins. I’ve been pretty snowed under for the last few months with Property Management problems and having been on one of my caravan expeditions for the last few weeks. MY CURRENT LAND-VOYAGE BY [more…]

Biography

SAILING MY LIFE AWAY (II), PART 1

12th April 2022 Ancient Mariner 0

THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE AND DISCOVERY OF THE ARCHIPELAGO Descartes is famously quoted as having said “Cogito, Ergo Sum”. His remark was first published in French to reach a wider audience- “Je pense, donc je suis”. [more…]

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